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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 5215142" data-attributes="member: 7737">I've never had a one-game-session failure, but I did have a pretty inglorious failure only a few sessions into a campaign.The PCs had just completed their first &quot;mission&quot;, a heavily modified version of the first part of Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. They ended up working for the lord of &quot;Saltmarsh&quot;; but it was a few days until the pirate ship was due back, so I decided to think up a short side-trek adventure.A messenger from the nearby mountain outpost arrived, with a breathless tale of horrible undead slaughtering the outpost. Two of the characters hated undead, so I figured they'd bite on this hook.Nope. Not interested.Two of the other characters were really into brown-nosing the local lord in an effort to be granted land and titles, so I had the lord appeal to them to save his mountain outpost.Nope. Not interested.&quot;Okay,&quot; I said, passing across the campaign map. &quot;Pick somewhere on this map you want to go, and I'll make an adventure happen there.&quot;Nope. Not interested.&quot;I'll, uh, just show myself out, then,&quot; I said. And left.Turns out they didn't like my DMing but weren't men enough to just kick me out. Most embarrassing failure of my D&amp;D career.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 5215142, member: 7737"] I've never had a one-game-session failure, but I did have a pretty inglorious failure only a few sessions into a campaign. The PCs had just completed their first "mission", a heavily modified version of the first part of [I]Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh[/I]. They ended up working for the lord of "Saltmarsh"; but it was a few days until the pirate ship was due back, so I decided to think up a short side-trek adventure. A messenger from the nearby mountain outpost arrived, with a breathless tale of horrible undead slaughtering the outpost. Two of the characters hated undead, so I figured they'd bite on this hook. Nope. Not interested. Two of the other characters were really into brown-nosing the local lord in an effort to be granted land and titles, so I had the lord appeal to them to save his mountain outpost. Nope. Not interested. "Okay," I said, passing across the campaign map. "Pick somewhere on this map you want to go, and I'll make an adventure happen there." Nope. Not interested. "I'll, uh, just show myself out, then," I said. And left. Turns out they didn't like my DMing but weren't men enough to just kick me out. Most embarrassing failure of my D&D career. [/QUOTE]

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